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The next Music Director of the Teatro alla Scala, Myung-Whun Chung, reaches his eleventh opera title at La Scala (having conducted over 140 concerts both at home and on tour) with this new production of Bizet’s Carmen, a co-production with London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Madrid’s Teatro Real. Well-versed in French music—also through his work with the Opéra Bastille and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France—Chung leads a cast that is perfectly idiomatic. Alongside Clémentine Margaine in the title role, alternating with Stéphanie d’Oustrac, and Giorgi Manoshvili as Escamillo, the production features Vittorio Grigolo as Don José—a major Italian voice with a strong affinity for the French repertoire— alternating with Matthew Polenzani. Damiano Michieletto and set designer Paolo Fantin reduce local colour to a minimum in order to construct a bare and effective spectacle, focused on the ineluctable fate of the protagonists.

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Carmen

Teatro alla Scala

Two wicked stepsisters, but no stepmother. No pumpkin, no slipper… but a strange philosopher as a fairy godmother. This is Cinderella revisited: a musical fairy tale in chiaroscuro, where Perrault meets Marivaux.

With La Cenerentola , Rossini strikes the perfect balance between laughter and emotion. The young lovers and their guardian angel possess the nobility of the serio style, while the stepfamily bursts forth with comic absurdity . All cross paths amidst a series of misunderstandings with electrifying effects. Returning to the Dijon Opera after The Pearl Fishers (2025), director Mirabelle Ordinaire explores this interplay between reality and appearances, drawing parallels between Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland, and Lewis Carroll's sequel, Through the Looking-Glass , published in 1871. Acclaimed as Poppea and during her recital of Moving Songs , Dijon-born mezzo-soprano Marine Chagnon embodies the sensitive Angelina. Another rising star, the young Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti, leads the Dijon Bourgogne Orchestra and the Dijon Opera Chorus.

La Cenerentola

Opéra de Dijon

Verdi’s opera, centred around the young courtesan Violetta’s love for the upper-class Alfredo, enjoys a constant presence at opera houses across the world. La traviata’s themes of love, sacrifice and tragedy make for an evening of almost constant, compelling drama, driven along by memorable tunes and richly coloured orchestration, while its glorious vocal writing has made it a perennial favourite among the greatest opera singers.

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Marine Chagnon

Events

Upcoming events

4 - 10 Nov, 2026

La Cenerentola · Opéra de Dijon

29 - 31 May, 2027

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano · Barbican Centre

Past events

8 - 27 Jun, 2026

Carmen · Teatro alla Scala

Future and recently performed repertoire

Flora Bervoix in La traviata by Verdi

Barbican Centre

Angelina, say Cinderella in Cinderella by Rossini

Opéra de Dijon

Mercédès in Carmen by Bizet

Teatro alla Scala

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